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Vor 4 Tagen · Today, almost two and a half centuries later, many Americans are worried about our Constitution. Our next guest has written that, lately, American democracy has begun to wobble, leaning on a ...
Vor 3 Tagen · During our stay at Harvard Law School we had the opportunity, as an applicant for a little more than a doctorate, to make friends with Richard Parker, professor of constitutional law and author of the book “Here, the People Rule”: A Constitutional Populist Manifesto. The other two teachers of a student well over forty were Roberto Unger of German and Brazilian descent and Stephen Marlign ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Ackerman’s is the most ambitious; it is the third volume in an ongoing series on American constitutional history called We the People. A professor of law and political science at Yale, Ackerman likens the act to a constitutional amendment in its significance to the country’s legal development.”—Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic“Ackerman weaves political theory with historical detail ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Constitution of the United States of America, the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. The oldest written national constitution in use, the Constitution defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens.
Vor 5 Tagen · Scholars such as Gordon Wood describe how Americans were caught up in the Revolutionary fervor and excitement of creating governments, societies, a new nation on the face of the earth by rational choice as Thomas Paine declared in Common Sense.
Vor 5 Tagen · Second Amendment, amendment to the Constitution of the United States, adopted in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, that provided a constitutional check on congressional power under Article I Section 8 to organize, arm, and discipline the federal militia.
Vor 5 Tagen · After the American Civil War, three new constitutional amendments were adopted: the Thirteenth (1865), which abolished slavery; the Fourteenth (1868), which granted citizenship to those who had been enslaved; and the Fifteenth (1870), which guaranteed formerly enslaved men the right to vote.
